Project Scheduling and Estimating Tips to Boost Your Business
While the housing market continues to face economic and supply challenges, eager home buyers are pushing to purchase property at the slightest move in interest rates.
Mortgage application volume rose in June, seeing a 5.4% seasonally adjusted increase in May and 21.1% rise since June 2024 because of a 4 basis-point drop in 30-year fixed mortgage rates to 6.86%.
NAHB’s fall slate of live online courses (member login required) are geared toward helping you create effective marketing campaigns, develop efficient project completion skills and prepare for any scenario in today’s economy.
How to Craft a Winning Digital Marketing Strategy
Sept. 4 | 1-4 p.m. ET
This course teaches marketing tactics to engage potential home buyers and turn them into leads. Home builders will learn how to brand their company, produce content and effectively use websites, social media platforms, photography and email campaigns to capture today’s consumers.
Project Management
Sept. 9 and 11 | 1-4 p.m. ET
This pair of courses allows you to explore the role of project manager across all phases of a project (pre-construction, construction and post-construction), learning the fundamentals of how to successfully manage projects on time, within budget and to the satisfaction of stakeholders.
Estimating: The First Line of Defense for Profits
Sept. 23 | 1-4 p.m. ET
Project preparation is crucial for its successful execution. This course will help you identify the fundamentals of estimating to identify costs, use spreadsheets and packaged estimating systems, and identify techniques for estimating in an ever-changing market.
The Project Schedule: A Planning and Communication Tool
Sept. 25 | 1-4 p.m. ET
This course will show you the fundamental components of schedule-making, the many different types of schedules, how to create your own project schedule and how to review contract considerations regarding scheduling.
Save 10% by bundling the Estimating and Project Schedule courses together.